Choppy Video under Tmpgenc Plus

[Pmack]

Hello,

I was using Tmpgenc Plus to convert from a AVI to SVCD. The first 1-2 minutes are in slow motion (But in sync with the audio which is also choppy). After that both clear up and continue properly.

Any suggestions as to how to fix this? I went through and had all possible task bar items closed, and my system is a 1gig with 512meg RAM, so I am thinking neither of those factors are at play.

Thanks in advance.

Pat

[markums2k]

I'm having the EXACT same problem, searching for solutions! I'm testing a quick 15 second clip of video. The first 5 seconds are choppy, both video and audio, but then it smooths out and is completely in sync with the audio. Plays the exact same way on my PC and my stand-alone DVD player.

Anyone have any suggestions??

So far, I've found out this much.

Encoding video (TMPEGenc) and audio (headac3he) seperately, and then muxing in BBmpeg makes things WORSE. The entire clip is choppy and out of sync. I read on another board that this method produces flawless encodes. Not so in this case.

Right now I am encoding video from AVI and audio from WAV in TMPEGenc. I created both of the files myself from Premiere, so I know the files match as far as length is concerned. I am going to experiment with pulling the audio from the AVI as well, etc.

[Videopimp]

hope you aren't simply using the default settings/templates

[markums2k]

Whats wrong with the default settings?

I am using the default template, simply because messing with the settings produced very very BAD MPEG2 files in all my tests. My stand-alone wouldn't even scan forward or backward and video was very blocky. I gave up trying to customize the video and started fresh with the default template. It looks better than ever and I'm really happy with the quality, aside from this choppy video and audio at the start of the clips.

[Videopimp]

when watching your AVI, before encoding do you see this same choppiness?

[markums2k]

Nope. It is flawless. So is the seperate WAV file.

[Videopimp]

can you try doing a short encode of the first 4 minutes in MPEG-1 format?


we know MPEG-2 has problems, but does MPEG-1

this will tell you whether the problem is in your AVI or in TMPGEnc

[markums2k]

The exact same clips work fine when encoded as MPEG1.